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Vermicomposters.com is a social networking community for people who have a worm bin/compost with worms or for people who are thinking about getting started. Read this note to help you get started on vermicomposters.com:

Share your knowledge by becoming a WormWiki writer! Vermicomposting can be intimidating at first... but maybe we can help make it easier by assembling our experiences and knowledge on a wiki to help people get started. Write your own articles like Amy's How to make a worm bin bag or just pitch in on the collectively written online guide. Check out the Online Resources / Links Section

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"I've read quite a number of times that you can feed them on 100% cardboard. The glue holding the 3 layers together is animal in origin, providing the N and the cardboard provides the bedding - C. I just want to see what personal…"

"Hi Susan, long time no see.
I'm sure your BSFL leave droppings and since you're feeding only the larvae to the chickens, you could add the droppings into the worm bin. I sort of remember from long ago that worms will go through that…"

Is there anyone using mostly cardboard as a food and bedding? How is it working. I've been vermicomposting for over a decade and just started using black soldier fly larvae now that I'm living on a farm with chickens to feed them to. I heard a BSFL guy say that you should give all of the food to the BSFL and feed cardboard to the worms. I'd love any advice you could give. I've been soaking the cardboard in a trash can for a few days until I get around to tearing it in to smaller pieces -…See More

"Hello everyone I am back in Myanmar - I thought I would update you on my worm hunting. I have found or rather my colleagues have found two places which sell composting worms close to Yangon.
The Vegetable and Fruit Research Development Centre -…"

Hello again, I am trying to identify some worms I found close to Gamella in Ethiopia. It is a part of an ongoing project and I am trying to find native composting worms here:Worm 1 was found about 1 cm below the surface in organic rich black soil, which was damp and had a cover of leaf litter. It is a brown worm with a purple to green iridescence on its top side. Its underneath lacks iridescence and is considerable lighter. It has a flat saddle, pointed front end and rounded back end. The…See More

Blog Posts

Here I will mention that previously I had only to raise the lid and note the number of worms coming to the top of the chamber. This would then allow me to consider what may be the cause of their trouble. I had for a number of days lifted the lid and there seemed no problem in this direction,

I began to be aware of a slight smell within the garage, a few more days and this became more powerful! I found the source of the smell: a large number of worms were found shrivelled in the…

Before I begin I want to say that as a previous novice I found that references to bedding somewhat baffling. The reason was that no distinction was made between the bedding used in starting off a wormery and that used to cover the wormery contents. Perhaps the prefix of lower and top might be used to avoid any confusion? Please feel free to comment.

More of my MK4 experiences:

As I previously stated when the worms are not happy they begin to rise up the inner walls, their…

Here I wish to explain my MK4 wormery. The main chamber of which is the insulated cabinet. I was looking for a deep freezer cabinet, a fridge would have had fittings for milk bottles!. The one I found was approx. a 2ft cube...The back was cut out by using a Stanley pad saw from inside the cabinet. (It was a Necht N1 that had been dumped minus the compressor). That done I made a wooden frame to take the rods, the cabinet now sits on the frame which is 1 1/4in wide all round. The door now…

Finishing up Master Gardener class from Clemson University! 2 more classes and about 20 more hours of volunteer service and will have my certificate! Built nearby county extension office a stackable 5 gallon bucket vermi-system this morning.

~ HOW to win? Make art – sculptures, paintings, drawings,videos, poems,net art, music, dance, creative designs, architecture, etc – that celebrates composting worms. See examples of what has been made in this genre on the wormculture.org blog. To…

I am awaiting my worm's arrival. I have prepared shredded paper and gathered kitchen scraps. I have a container of baked and powdered egg shells. I am just about ready.

However, I look at my bin which is a 2x3 tank 18" deep and wonder if I want to drill holes in the bottom. I have heard that they are not actually necessary but so many people are doing it. For now I am going to bypass this step.

What is the food that will draw European Night-crawlers most quickly, within 1 to 4 days? Please do post your personal experiences with foods that they come to within 1 to 4 days.

Right now, I'm interested in this food experiment, but ultimately, I'd like to figure out how to draw some of the biggest worms into a small area for "quick picking", so if you have personal experience with that please do post about it.